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Wednesday 10 May 2023
Qualcomm to step up competition in self-driving IC market
Qualcomm's proposed acquisition of Autotalks will increase its competitive position in the high-level self-driving IC market against Nvidia and Intel, according to industry observe...
Wednesday 10 May 2023
Infineon, Foxconn to team up for EVs
Infineon Technologies and Hon Hai Technology (Foxconn) have signed an agreement to work on silicon carbide (SiC) development for electric vehicles (EV).
Wednesday 10 May 2023
TSMC increases quarterly dividend
TSMC decided to raise its quarterly dividend to NT$3 (US$0.10) a share, up from NT$2.75 that had been in place since 2021.
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Natural selection in chip industry: 10,000 chip companies closed in China in the past two years
A new topic has arisen in Chinese media lately: almost 10,000 chip companies were closed and deregistered in 2021 and 2022. Whether that is the result of the U.S. government's export...
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Rohm mass producing 650V GaN HEMTs
ROHM Semiconductor has announced mass production of 650V gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMT) optimized for a wide range of power supply systems applications...
Tuesday 9 May 2023
China homegrown autonomous driving chips gaining ground in domestic market
China's automotive-grade chip suppliers Horizon Robotics Technology and Black Sesame Technologies are in a position to rival Nvidia and Texas Instruments (TI) in both high- and low-computing...
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Neo Semiconductor develops 3D NAND-like DRAM
Neo Semiconductor has announced the release of 3D X-DRAM, the world's first 3D NAND-like DRAM, which the company believes would eliminate DRAM's capacity issue and replace the entire...
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Samsung eyes AI for semiconductor production efficiency
Samsung Electronics has been suffering from the memory industry slump. Investment in equipment is expensive and increasingly a burden to the company. Sources from South Korean memory...
Tuesday 9 May 2023
VIA Labs uncertain about 2H23 demand prospects
VIA Labs, a subsidiary of VIA Technologies specializing in high-speed transmission chips, has expressed uncertainty regarding the demand outlook for the second half of this year.
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Zhen Ding cautious about 1H23 business prospects
PCB and IC substrate manufacturer Zhen Ding Technology has expressed caution about its business prospects for the first half of this year, citing ongoing inventory adjustments throughout...
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Nuvoton warns of limited long-term order visibility
MCU specialist Nuvoton Technology has warned of limited long-term order visibility, claiming the market recovery is not proceeding as fast as expected and the industry's inventory...
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Canadian AI startup Astrus on the way to revolutionize analog chip design
Astrus, a Canada-based startup focusing on analog IC design automation, is aspiring to revolutionize the global chip design industry by leveraging recent breakthroughs in artificial...
Tuesday 9 May 2023
3D chip stacking tech competition intensifying
TSMC has recently announced SoIC-P, microbump versions of its System on Integrated Chips (SoIC) solutions providing a cost-effective way for 3D chip stacking.
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Taiwan PMIC suppliers see increased competition from IDMs
Taiwan-based power management IC (PMIC) producers had previously expressed fear that Europe- and US-based IDMs would return to the consumer PMIC segment, and this appears to be the...
Monday 8 May 2023
Nvidia's new mid-end gaming series to be mild boost to peripheral IC packaging & testing
The global consumer electronics market has faced sluggish end demand since the beginning of 2023. Sources anticipates suppliers to buoy the market with new product series this year,...